Meaghan Murray is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is being touted as the largest climate bill in U.S. history – but what does that actually mean, when the bar was so low to begin with? President Biden’s original climate legislation for the IRA crumbled in mid-July, when […]
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Inflation is soaring and devastating workers’ living standards. Every trip to the food store brings a new shock. Canada’s official inflation rate was an 8.1 percent increase in June over May, the painfully worst increase in 40 years. To add to the pain, the Bank of Canada raised its prime interest rate from 1.5 percent […]
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Bia Lacombe is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. How Working People & Socialists Won Last month, thousands of local activists and young people in Seattle won a landmark victory in the abortion rights struggle — led by the office of socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, we succeeded in our fight to make […]
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A tragic shootout at my neighbourhood Bank of Montreal, near Victoria, recently left two people dead and six injured, grabbing national headlines. And news coverage of this event casually mentioned that this same bank — which is just across the street from the bank I use — had been successfully robbed just four months before: […]
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One unelected Supreme Court judge has overturned the democratic decision of the City of Vancouver. The ruling backs the greed of landlords over the need of people. In November 2021, Vancouver council agreed, with only one vote against, to implement rent control on Single Room Accommodation (SRA). These small units, about 100 square feet and […]
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Keely Mullen is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. In kicking abortion rights back to the states, the right hoped that they’d see a clear path to near-total abortion bans across the country. Well, the results this week in Kansas should serve as a kick in the teeth. In a landslide victory, and […]
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Sixty years ago, North America’s first socialist government, in the heart of the Canadian prairies, Saskatchewan, enacted one of the demands outlined in its manifesto: a free, public health care system. This new program was enacted on July 1, 1962. However, this was not without a struggle, as on the first day of its enactment, […]
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Manus Lenihan is a member of the Socialist Party (ISA in Ireland). The hype around the ‘ride-sharing’ app Uber has always been shadowed by protests and scandals. But now the Uber Files, released by a whistleblower, have revealed that under the grand phrases about ‘the sharing economy’ there was rampant crime and exploitation. Across the […]
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Vincent Kolo is a contributor to chinaworker.info. A succession of economic and political disasters is casting a dark cloud over Xi Jinping’s impending coronation as China’s dictator-for-life. Paralyzing “Zero COVID” lockdowns of major cities, collapsing GDP growth, record unemployment levels, and accelerating imperialist conflict in the shadow of the Ukraine war have plunged Chinese society […]
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John Hird is a member of Socialismo Revolucionario (ISA in the Spanish State). Since the lifting of COVID19 restrictions, various sectors of the organised workers in the Spanish state have started to take action. The catalyst was the magnificent metal worker’s strike and movement in Cadiz at the end of 2021. In the Basque Country, […]
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